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Governance & Policy

Regulation, standards bodies and the internal policies organisations write for autonomous systems. What is actually enforceable, what is aspiration, and where the two are being confused.

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14 August 2026

Claude Code Just Automated the Decision to Ask You for Permission

Anthropic has made auto mode the default permission mode for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans, starting 14 August 2026. Auto mode is not unrestricted execution: a separate classifier reviews each tool call, deny and explicit ask rules still fire first, and repeated blocks fall back to manual prompts. The interesting shift is architectural. The decision about when a human is needed has moved up a layer.

Agent Authority10 min read·Belay Intelligence

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13 August 2026

AI Agents Are Getting Flight Recorders. That Tells You Where the Real Problem Is.

The Open Secure AI Alliance published a request for comments on SAFE, a proposed framework for reporting AI agent security incidents. The proposal would require preserving prompts, agent traces, tool calls, identities, permissions, and credentials. That is not a server log. It is the beginning of a theory of agent accountability.

Governance & Policy10 min read
13 August 2026

Robinhood Didn't Just Add a Chatbot. It Authorized Software to Move Your Money.

On 27 May 2026 Robinhood opened Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card to third-party AI agents, letting a connected agent place real trades and real purchases inside a customer's account. The safeguards Robinhood built are real. The harder question is what execution-time control means once software, not a person, decides whether an action actually runs.

Agent Authority9 min read

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